Cold Wars breakout star is a throwback screen goddess.
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Joanna Kuligs door is open.
This isnt a metaphor.
Is it cold out?
she asks, with the familiarity of someone speaking to a sibling.
An actor must take care of her health, she says.
We hardly knew ye.
(And it is okay.
The purse is still there five minutes later when we return to the table.)
But their relationship is never quite that easy.
Universal love story, Kulig says.
moment for American viewers.
Zula is the rare role where someone so multi-talented can shine.
It was the chance of a lifetime.
But it would also dredge up her own past.
My co-star Tomasz and I, we have a lot of conversations about our grandparents, she says.
They had nothing in the shops, couldnt travel.
I was 6 when communism was finished.
My grandmother would hide bread for when maybe another war would come.
You had to be ready.
When Kulig was a young performer, she excelledat everything she tried.
She wonChance for Success(PolandsAmerican Idol) at 15.
Her mother told her she had to show the world her talent.
(Her mother was a cook for the local kindergarten but had always wanted to be a nurse.)
So she went to school studying classical piano and vocals before entering a drama program.
Kulig was jealous of the teacher.
I told her, I want to sing like younow.
She stretched herself so thin, she had a breakdown.
It was an episode ofTeatr Telewizji, in which the late Marcin Wrona had directed her.
She wiped at her face and said, Huh.
I am not so bad.
Maybe I should keep doing this.
Extreme happiness, extreme sadness, like Zula.
I was so strong, but I wasnt calm.
You never know what Zula will say or do from one moment to the next.
Its a whiplash of a character and a performance.
Kulig has obviously changed over time.
She sang it so many times, in so many ways, that the tune still haunts her.
